8 Workshops “Tasting Menu”
Wet Plate Shooting Night
Date: May 17 | Thursday
Time: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $100
This is a 4 hour shooting night for the wet plate community to interact with other wet plate photographers. This shooting night will be for shooting and troubleshooting the wet plate process. We provide the cameras, chemicals, tin, glass, and studio, and you provide the inspiration. This shooting night is for wet plate practitioners who have taken a wet plate workshop and would…
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Chemistry Safety and Mixing with Morgan Post
Date: June 23 | Saturday
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $75
Course Description:
Chemical safety and mixing techniques for 19th century photography in the 21st Century.
This class will go over practical safety measures when mixing, storing and trying not to inhale or ignite various chemicals. We will answer question’s like: Can I mix this type of acid with this type of chemical? Is it safe to store this in…
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Bromoil with Joy Goldkind
Date: August 11 & 12 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395
Course Description:
Joy Goldkind was 50 years old before she took her first photography class, though her background was always based in the fine arts. Despite an unusually late start, Goldkinds career as a fine arts photographer has progressed rather rapidly. Her photographs of nude dancers, geishas, drag queens, ballerinas, circus performers, etc. have not…
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Daguerreotype: Becquerel with Jason Greenberg Motamedi
Date: August 18 & 19 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $795 + $130 materials fee
Course Description:
The daguerreotype is an image unlike any other; each is unique and elusive. It was one of the first and arguably most beautiful forms of photography, and yet its technologies are largely forgotten. In this workshop we will learn, practice, and discuss different methods of daguerreotypy with the…
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Daguerreotype: Mercury with Kenneth Nelson
Date: August 25 & 26 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $895 + $130
Course Description:
The mercury-developed daguerreotype was the process that Daguerre, and the French government, gave to the world in August of 1839. Within the next two years, the process was dramatically refined. This class will introduce this refined technique, brought forward into the 21st Century. In comparison to the Becquerel process, this…
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Toying with Plastic Cameras Workshop with Michelle Bates
Date: September 8 & 9 | Saturday & Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 4:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395
Overwhelmed by complicated, expensive cameras? Want to reconnect with the simple joys of photography? Join Michelle Bates as she guides you into the wonderful world of the Holga camera. With this basic tool, we’ll explore image-making with a twist, using this immensely popular medium-format film camera. The weekend will include a slide show of a wide range
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Carbon Printing with Lisa Elmaleh
Date: September 15 & 16 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395
“During the entire period of its history,” states Sandy King in The Book of Carbon and Carbro, “carbon was considered the aristocrat of printing processes.” This class is a thorough introduction to the delightfully versatile carbon printing process, developed in 1855. The carbon process allows the printer to print in a variety of colors, tones, and on many different…
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Wet Plate Shooting Night
Date: September 20 | Thursday
Time: 5:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $100
This is a 4 hour shooting night for the wet plate community to interact with other wet plate photographers. This shooting night will be for shooting and troubleshooting the wet plate process. We provide the cameras, chemicals, tin, glass, and studio, and you provide the inspiration. This shooting night is for wet plate practitioners who have taken a wet plate workshop and would like…
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Beyond the Mousetrap: Building a Calotype-era Camera and Lens with Alan Greene
Date: September 22 & 23 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395 + $40 Materials Fee
Since calotype paper negatives are often exposed in a dampened state, it becomes difficult to load them in modern film-holders and cameras without contamination. Taking inspiration from Talbot’s early “mouse-trap” cameras and other calotype-era designs, we will use contemporary materials like foam-core and PVC tubing to build whole-plate format box-cameras equipped…
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1847: The Art of the French Calotype with Alan Greene
Date: September 29 & 30 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30 Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395 + $100 materials fee
French paper-negative practitioners are often said to have improved upon Talbot’s original patented calotype procedure. Here, we will use one of earliest and most influential of the French techniques, a paper-negative method pioneered by the husband-and-wife team of Amélie Saguez and Jacques-Michel Guillot in the mid-1840s, and later known as “the…
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Multi-Colored Gum Bichromates with Brenton Hamilton
Date: October 13 & 14 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395
Course Description:
Introduction to the classic and flexible gum bichromate process. Making artists watercolors light sensitive and coating these emulsions on elegant papers we’ll embark on a painterly application and make images that refer to the Photo Succession period. Large format or appropriate digital negatives are necessary for this course.
Instructor Biography:
Brenton
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Albumen with Brenton Hamilton
Date: October 20 & 21 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395 + $100 materials fee
The exquisite 1860′s albumen process will be investigated and introduced in this workshop. Paper will be coated with egg albumen then sensitized with silver nitrate. We will cover emulsion preparation and recipes, coating, sensitizing, and gold toning. Paper selection, sink preparation, and a discussion of appropriate negative density will be included.…
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Cyanotype with Robert Schaefer
Date: Oct 27 | Saturday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $195
This workshop is an investigation into the expressive possibilities of the Cyanotype. This process involves an iron-based chemical formula that creates a light sensitive emulsion. This emulsion is then painted onto art paper and exposed by placing a negative on the emulsion and making a contact print with a UV light source. This workshop will cover and demonstrate…
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Digital Negatives with Morgan Post
Date: October 27 & 28 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395
Prerequisites:
Students MUST have a working knowledge of Adobe Photoshop. All students are required to bring a laptop with Adobe Photoshop installed.
Course Description:
Creating negatives in a digital darkroom has revolutionized the alternative photographic process world where instant edibility and correction can be done in minutes to achieve the perfect negative. During this introduction to digital negatives we will go over how to set up the digital…
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Cyanotype “Play Night” with Robert Schaefer
Date: October 30 | Tuesday
Time: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $90
Course Description:
This is a 4-hour opportunity to produce cyanotypes and meet others working with this printing process. The cyanotype play night will be for producing cyanotypes and learning more about this process. We provide the chemicals, paper, UV light source, and studio – you provide negatives and inspiration. This cyanotype play night is for cyanotype practitioners who have already taken…
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How to Choose and Use a Lens for Large Format and Alternative Process with Eric Taubman and Geoffrey Berliner
Date: November 3 | Saturday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $75
Choosing the right lens for a project is one of the most important decisions a photographer can make. This class will discuss how to determine the appropriate focal length and coverage for format and perspective. Lenses covered will be from hand ground 19th century to modern day computer designed objectives. Some of the 19th century lenses presented will be…
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Into the Ether: Intro to Wet Plate with Joni Sternbach
Date: November 3 & 4 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395 + $100 Materials Fee
This two day hands-on workshop is an introduction to the wet plate process. Immediate, hand-made and practiced in the 19th century by photographers such as Timothy O’Sullivan, Edward Muybridge and Julia Margaret Cameron, this class contextualizes the process in today’s changing photographic climate. Students will learn the basics of how…
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Hocus Focus: A History, Analysis, and Attempt at Spirit Photography with Morgan Post and Eric Taubman
Date: November 10 & 11 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street New York, NY 10016
Price: $395 + $100 Materials Fee
Course description coming soon!
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Wet Plate Shooting Night
Date: November 15 | Thursday
Time: 6:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $100
This is a 4 hour shooting night for the wet plate community to interact with other wet plate photographers. This shooting night will be for shooting and troubleshooting the wet plate process. We provide the cameras, chemicals, tin, glass, and studio, and you provide the inspiration. This shooting night is for wet plate practitioners who have taken a wet plate workshop and would…
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Platinum with Carl Weese
Date: December 1 & 2 | Saturday and Sunday
Time: 10:00 am – 6:00 pm (1 hour lunch)
Location: 36 East 30th Street, New York, NY 10016
Price: $395 + $75 materials fee
CAP/ICP
Course Descripton:
In this course, participants will learn to make photographs by direct contact printing in Platinum/Palladium using a coherent, unified approach from selecting a subject to making the final print. This introductory workshop will give an overview of the process beginning with the visualization of pictures for…
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Upcoming Workshops
The Center for Alternative Photography is pleased to announce our partnership with the International Center of Photography. The workshops that have CAP/ICP* next to the description are workshops that will appear in the Spring ICP catalog. We are looking forward to working with the ICP and to our continuing collaboration.